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Yeah impressive. I'm on a windows machine and find the windows explorer, and especially "search" to basically be broken. I have so little confidence in the search that I avoid it at nearly any cost. I find that it was much better on Windows XP (and I'm not saying it was anywhere near good on WinXP).

I'm not sure to what extent this is a replacement (on the site it sounds ambitious), but I'm very curious.

The search is garbage but overall windows explorer is miles ahead of finder. You pretty much need to use a 3rd party explorer on a mac.

I've a machine with Windows Vista and accidentally found "\Windows\System32\where.exe". It's pretty dang useful, similar to gnu locate. Doesn't address the larger issues of Vista or file explorers in general, but helps get stuff done.

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